"We can't get down and start blaming and letting the pressure of doing bad build up."

The 38-point setback was Auburn's worst loss in 15 years, and it was the Tigers' worst loss to Georgia since 1946. Auburn fell to 6-4 on the season after losing three of its last five.

Georgia was up 35-7 at the half and put it on cruise control to finish off the Tigers.

"The outcome is very disappointing and unacceptable, no question about that," said coach Gene Chizik.

And that brings Auburn to Saturday's noon game against Samford.

"This week is really big because of going through that tough situation," Moseley said. "It was tough for our team.

"People will say bad things about me. People will make excuses for me. That doesn't help me at all. I should have played a lot better. There's no debate about that.

"The biggest thing for us, and the thing I really stressed to the guys in the locker room, was just to own up to your mistakes. It's so easy when things are going so bad to point fingers."

With that, Moseley, who was sacked five times, said there's no one to blame but himself for throwing an interception that was returned for a touchdown.

"As bad as it hurts and as tough as it is, I'm owning up to the pick. It was nobody else's fault but mine. That's what we have to do at this point," he said.

Blake said the trouble started after Georgia began breaking away from a 7-7 tie.

"I felt like that first drive that we were going to put up a lot of points that game. I think a lot of my teammates had that same feeling," Blake said. "A couple turnovers and a couple penalties really got us down, I think. We needed to keep believing."

Blake said some of the young players were to the point of "just kind of losing hope a little bit."

"When you have a couple turnovers in crucial moments or somebody doesn't make a specific play, then it kind of lets you down a little bit. But as leaders, we have to be better at picking people up and stuff."

But as far as most of the team, "They're young. I'm not sure what their high school games were like, but maybe a lot of them haven't lost before or have been down. But, like I said, it's a learning experience and we have to grow up from it," Blake said.

"I think our leadership has been good, though. We have good leaders on the team. You do see the guys on the sidelines trying to pick people up and not lose hope. That's what we need."

It was tough for anybody to put a positive spin on the game after watching the game film.

"It looked really bad," Moseley said. "The way it felt at the game, I thought it was going to look a lot worse, but it was still awful. It was just really bad. It was tough to watch."

Chizik said it's all part of growing up.

"We have to be mindful that there is still a lot of youth on our whole team. There are a lot of growing pains that go with that," he said. "We understand that. That doesn't make a performance like that OK."